Caradigm and RightPatient are offering a bundled solution that provides biometric patient identification services with identity and access management. The partnership is a response to the growing urgency for healthcare providers to reduce security and compliance risk, secure data, protect privacy and increase safety.The RightPatient/Caradigm partnership provides a unique bundle of healthcare solutions that combines the industry’s most versatile biometric patient identification service with the
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drchrono Integrates With Inferscience to Standardize Evidence-based Care Delivery
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced an integration partnership with Inferscience, a provider of point-of-care Clinical Decision Support and HCC Risk Adjustment technologiesInfera, is now available to drchrono’s growing network of more than 100,000 medical professionals who can now more efficiently standardize evidence-based care delivery and more effectively risk adjust their patient populations. “Inferscience delivers a valuable service for care providers,” said Sunil Nihalani, CEO and
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Health Wildcatters Unveils Fifth Class of 9 Health IT Startups
Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator has unveiled nine new health IT companies selected to participate in the 2017 accelerator program. With the addition of these 10 healthcare startups, which comprise Health Wildcatters’ third class, the program’s portfolio totals 32 companies spanning the healthcare spectrum.Each selected health IT startup will participate in the 12 week accelerator program receiving $30k in exchange for 8% equity stake. During the program, the
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CHIME, DirectTrust Partner to Promote Secure, Interoperable Exchange of Health Information
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and DirectTrust today announced they are collaborating to promote the universal deployment of the DirectTrust framework and health information exchange network as the standard electronic interface for health information exchange across the country.DirectTrust’s network is the largest standards-based network for the exchange of health information, with more than 1.5 million send and receive endpoints, at over 100,000 healthcare
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ExplORer Surgical Raises $3M to Commercialize Real-Time Surgical Workflow Management Tool
ExplORer Surgical, a Chicago-based startup provider of intraoperative surgical and interventional procedure workflow management and analytics has raised $3M in Series A funding led by Aphelion Capital. The round also included participation from Elliott Management, the University of Chicago, M25 Group, and the Harvard Business School Angels of Chicago. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate commercialization of its interactive workflow management platform for surgery that that
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Optum to Acquire The Advisory Board Company’s Healthcare Business for $1.3B
United Health Group’s healthcare consulting and services unit, Optum has agreed to acquire The Advisory Board Company’s healthcare business for $1.3 billion, including the assumption of The Advisory Board Company’s debt. Based in Washington D.C., Advisory Board is a strategic healthcare advisory services firm that uses a combination of research, technology and consulting to improve the performance of more than 4,400 healthcare organizations.For Optum, the acquisition of the Advisory Board
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Bellin Health Taps PatientPing for Care Coordination Network
Bellin Health, an integrated healthcare delivery system based in Green Bay, WI has ) announced a new partnership with PatientPing, a Boston-based technology company building a national care coordination network. The new partnership will help Bellin Health collaborate on shared patients with other providers outside their network and across the care continuum, enabling a team-based, coordinated approach to patient care.Bellin is comprised of Bellin Hospital, Bellin Psychiatric Center, 32 Bellin
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Vidyo Integrates with Allscripts FollowMyHealth To Embed Telehealth Visits Directly Into Patient Portal
Vidyo, which is used by 295 U.S healthcare systems for telemedicine, today announced its integration with Allscripts’ FollowMyHealth patient engagement platform. The FollowMyHealth platform empowers patients for continuous engagement, while expanding their care team. The integration embeds virtual consultations directly into the patient portal, helping to create a system of connected care that is more accessible to more people.Modern, self-service video API platforms like vidyo.io (which was
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If MPIs are Dead, What’s Next For The Future of Patient Matching?
Healthcare technology continues to advance with ever greater sophistication and functionality. Yet one key component in the health IT toolkit has not kept pace with innovation. Patient matching technologies, including conventional master patient indexes (MPIs), hit a wall 10 years ago, and it’s time to admit it: conventional MPIs are a dying breed.The reason is that patient matching needs have grown exponentially at exactly the same time the underlying technology for patient matching solutions
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Intermountain Sets Goal to Reduce Opioid Prescribing by 40% Using EHRs
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has pledged to reduce by 40 percent the average amount of opioids prescribed per acute pain prescription at its 22 hospitals and 180 clinics by the end of 2018. To accomplish this 40 percent reduction, Intermountain will add prompts and default order sets into its electronic health records (EHRs) to help reduce the number of tablets prescribed. Intermountain has already provided training to about 2,500 caregivers within its system, with plans to expand
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